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SPARC T4 Servers Set World Record on Oracle E-Business Suite R12 X-Large Order to Cash

With Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server running the application and
SPARC T4-4 server running the database,
Oracle set a world record result for the Oracle E-Business Suite
Standard X-Large Order to Cash (OLTP) benchmark.

The combination of a SPARC T4-2 server running the
Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.2 application and a SPARC T4-4 server running
the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 database enabled 2400
Order to Cash users of the X-Large Benchmark to
simultaneously execute a large volume of medium to heavy transactions
with an average response time of 2.4 seconds.

The SPARC T4-2 server in the application tier and the SPARC T4-4 server
in the database tier are only about half utilized providing
significant headroom for additional Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.2
processing modules and future growth.

Performance Landscape

This is the first published result for the X-large benchmark
using Oracle E-Business Order Management module.

Benchmark Description

The Oracle R12 E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark combines
online transaction execution by simulated users with concurrent
batch processing to model a typical scenario for a global enterprise.
This benchmark ran one OLTP component, Order to Cash, in the Extra-Large
size. The goal is to obtain reference response times.

Results can be published in four sizes and utilize different combination

X-large: Maximum online users running all business flows between 10,000
to 20,000; 750,000 order to cash lines per hour and 250,000 payroll
checks per hour.

Order to Cash Online -- 2400 users

The percentage across the 5 transactions in Order Management module is:

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